It’s awards season (the Academy Awards are Feb. 24), so this week Art All Around Us reminds us that we don’t have to be in Los Angeles to have a quality movie experience. You can even screen some documentary shorts nominees here next month.

Esquire-Mariemont-Kenwood theaters

Keep up with the many small specialty films – American indies, foreign releases, documentaries – that are here or coming soon to the Esquire, Mariemont and Kenwood theaters, such as Rust and Bone, Diana Vreeland, Amour, Holy Motors, West of Memphis and more. You can move between the three theaters at www.esquiretheatre.com or follow on Facebook at Esquire-Mariemont-Kenwood-Theatres.

Cincinnati Film Society

Cincinnati Film Society, which has a long history but has been dormant for some time, recently reactivated behind a new group of energetic activists. It has held one event – a screening of music-related films Dogs in Space and Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man – and has Sin City planned for 7 p.m. Feb. 5 at Northside Tavern’s backroom, with visual effects artist David Lombardi as guest speaker. Visit www.cincinnatifilmsociety.wordpress.com for ticket information or send email inquiries to cincyfilmsociety@gmail.com.

Cincinnati World Cinema

Cincinnati World Cinema, now based at Covington’s Carnegie Arts Centers, presents new art films that wouldn’t otherwise get a local theatrical showing along with revivals. It has two upcoming events scheduled – Oscar-nominated Documentary Shorts at 4 p.m. Feb. 9 and 10; Carmen at 7 p.m. Feb. 14 and 15. Tickets are available at www.cincyworldcinema.org or 859-957-3456.

CCM screenings

University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music is hosting free screenings of the Global Lens series of international films at 2 p.m. Mondays at Tangeman University Center’s MainStreet Cinema, on the Clifton campus. Films come from Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Rwanda, Albania and elsewhere. Monday’s title, El Dedo (The Finger), is from Argentina. For a full listing, search the calendar at Cincinnati.com.

Public Library collection

The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County actively collects DVDs of important indie and art films. In recent weeks, important new arrivals have included the documentaries Detropia and Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, and French director Benoit Jacquot’s historical drama Farewell, My Queen about Marie Antoinette’s reader. You can keep up at www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/newarrivals.asp and then make requests. (Some new arrivals, usually domestic feature films, cannot be reserved online.)

Read or see Nick Clooney

One of the better books about film and its cultural impact on American society was written by Augusta, Ky.’s Nick Clooney, a longtime buff and local media personality (and father of actor George) who used to be a host on the American Movie Classics cable channel. It’s called “The Movies That Changed Us: Reflections on the Screen.” Clooney also frequently lectures on film.